Screenshots show possible Sense UI from HTC Espresso

Where there's an upcoming HTC phone, there's a current HTC ROM dump. And that brings us to this leak that reportedly shows the HTC Espresso's Sense UI with Android 2.1, ripped from the ROM and plopped onto a Hero. That bolsters the argument that the Espresso may be the successor to the Hero, but we'll just have to wait and see. A couple more pictures after the break. [Via HTCPedia]

T-mobile is getting some really nice handsets, hd2, n900, bold 9700 etc. They really offer some great stuff and where they have 3g its solid. I wish other companies verizon and att would get these super nice handsets

how about because that is the dumbest button ever. all you have to do is long press on the screen to do the same thing. where as to get to 'people' program you have to hit the phone button, then the 'favorites' icon, then slide it over to the 'all people' icon. now they just put the all people link directly in the bottom bar. I as a hero user hope this is real and hope they push this as an update to older devises.

Fake as can be. What leads you to think the amazing artists behind Sense would replace it with some good-for-nothing more acessible interface - like we don't know where are the icon borders... Also, the bottom menu would have to have the page indicator.

I'll tell you one thing for sure: if this comes to happen ( which I believe will not, for the sake of my trust on HTC), I will gladly root my Hero, thing that right now I don't really want to do...

Please, please PLEASE HTC, eliminate those hideous bubbles around the icons. It ruins the clean, polished look of Sense. Other than that, the rest of the changes seem like a step in the right direction.

I really hope this isn't the final version of the icons. Those bubbles are so stupid. I hope this is fake...it even looks fake. those are the same icons from sense just with bubbles around them. I would hope HTC would re-do all of the icons for 2.1 as the original icons themselves, i feel anyway, were kind of weak to begin with...